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By Owais Sultan In the US, there was a drop in sales of 19% as people stayed on their phones for longer. Globally, smartphone sales are down from 488 million units to 429 million units. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smartphone Discounts Set To Rocket As Market Slumps

By Deeba Ahmed At the moment, Zombinder is focusing entirely on Android apps but the service operators are offering Windows apps binding services. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zombinder on Dark Web Lets Hackers Add Malware to Legit Apps

By Habiba Rashid Here is everything you need to know about the first two days at the Pwn2Own hacking contest. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Pwn2Own Day 1 and 2: Samsung, HP, MikroTik & Netgear Pwned

Categories: Android Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Google has issued its December round of patches, which includes a fix for a critical vulnerability that allows RCE over Bluetooth (Read more...) The post Update now! Google patches Android vulnerability that allows remote code execution over Bluetooth appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

By Deeba Ahmed Hackers are using compromised platform certificates to sign Android malware apps. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Malware Apps Signed with Compromised Android Platform Certificates

Device manufacturers use “platform certificates” to verify an app’s authenticity, making them particularly dangerous in the wrong hands.

Platform certificates used by Android smartphone vendors like Samsung, LG, and MediaTek have been found to be abused to sign malicious apps. The findings were first discovered and reported by Google reverse engineer Łukasz Siewierski on Thursday. "A platform certificate is the application signing certificate used to sign the 'android' application on the system image," a report filed through the

Plus: Major patches dropped this month for Chrome, Firefox, VMware, Cisco, Citrix, and SAP.

A set of five medium-severity security flaws in Arm's Mali GPU driver has continued to remain unpatched on Android devices for months, despite fixes released by the chipmaker. Google Project Zero, which discovered and reported the bugs, said Arm addressed the shortcomings in July and August 2022. "These fixes have not yet made it downstream to affected Android devices (including Pixel, Samsung,

Months after a fix was issued by a vendor, downstream Android device manufacturers still haven't patched, highlighting a troubling trend.